On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to New Castle, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to underscore the historic investments of the recently passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal.
In New Castle, the Secretary was joined by U.S. Senator Tom Carper (DE) and U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (Delaware at Large) to announce that the U.S. Department of Energy’s Home Performance with ENERGY STAR® program has retrofitted one million American homes with energy efficiency measures, saving consumers more than $7.7 billion in energy costs.
In Philadelphia, the Secretary toured an energy efficiency workforce development facility and met with the next generation of green collar workers gaining hands-on training in weatherization home retrofitting.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal will invest $3.5 billion in weatherization and hundreds of millions in workforce training resulting in more efficient and healthier communities, lower energy bills and good-paying, climate-saving clean energy jobs across the country.
